LOCAL & NATIONAL projects

Mali Enterprising Leaders is the first community business pilot project which seeks to create community business opportunities intergenerationally within BAME community organisations in the UK.

Wolves Lane

A collaboration of community organisations, including The Ubele Initiative, decided to run an innovative series of group Conversations, as well as an afternoon festive market exploring food and community space based at Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre, Haringey.

Young Emerging Social Leaders Programme

This programme will provide a safe space for young leaders to explore their role in society as changemakers and how they can make a deep and lasting impact in their communities.

OurSpace - Open Projects

Through this project we want to support the set up of community projects/ initiatives/ businesses driven by Lambeth communities who have been most affected by gentrification and who are often excluded from regular business-growth events.

81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance (Incubation project)

With collaborating community partners, the programme will shine a light on the injustices that were rife at that time, highlighting the issues around race, poverty and policing and examining how little these have changed in 40 years.

Leading Routes (Incubation project)

Leading Routes is also an incubation project. It is a pioneering initiative, established to address the issues faced by Black students and graduates. with a particular focus on supporting ambitious young people into competitive universities and professions.

international projects

The Sankofa Intergenerational Learning Hub

This innovative Erasmus+ adult learning project will establish a creative intergenerational learning space through which 5 different but interconnected learning programmes will be offered to younger and older community leaders, change agents and social activists from BME communities.

IRETI

The IRETI project has as its goal the sharing and development of best practices in education for adults. The project was born from the idea to provide real support to victims of trafficking.

Young Men Speak Out

The aim is to encourage young men and boys to raise the topic of FGM in their families and to provide boys with the understanding and skills to challenge the myth that men prefer women who have been cut.

Pandora

Pandora project focused on developing an educational path for disadvantaged women and sharing best practices in the field of economic integration and female entrepreneurship. Partner organisations aimed to impact on adult education and increase the employability and the entrepreneur spirit of women.

The programme is designed to cultivate inner knowing, empowerment and personal transformation. Working On Our Powerwill reinforce the existing movement infrastructure for WOC in Europe by creating a space to organise and learn together.

Welcomeship

The main objective of the project is to develop and pilot the "Welcomeship" model of inclusion which closes the gap in collaboration and dialogue between the local residents, local young people, as well as migrants and refugees.

Black to the Future

The 'Black to the Future - A Sankofa approach to the exchange of youth work practice' was a 20 month innovative intergenerational project for youth workers from the African Diaspora in Amsterdam, Bonn and London.

PROJECTS archive

Creating Resilient Communities through Social Leadership

This project was a social leadership training programme that aimed to develop participants' personal and professional social leadership skills. The learning activities gave the participants new frameworks for enabling positive change in their communities.

PathHERways London

PatHERways offers a unique opportunity to support younger WOMEN from the African Diaspora to become civic leaders in their communities in five of London’s boroughs – Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.

PatHERways International

PatHERways International aimed to help to create greater access for young women’s participation in politics. Ubele was leading the UK element, other countries include France, Portugal, Peru, Cape Verde, East Timor and Mozambique.

StART (Consultancy project)

The Ubele Initiative have been commissioned to support StART on inclusion issues.

StART is a group of Haringey residents and workers who want to see the St Ann’s Hospital site used permanently for the good of all our local communities.

Wise Women on Wheels (Incubation project)

Wise Women on Wheels was our exciting incubation project in collaboration with Rockstone Community Foundation. It supported Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women over the age of 45 in developing cycling proficiency.

NoH8@All

The project proposed learning specific skills related to the prevention of hate speech by responding to its manifestations. NoH8@All supported also the people affected by this form of violence and the education of people who spread hate speech.

Youth Changemakers Training 2

The Youth Changemakers Training 2: Learning and Sharing for Ecological Sustainability, Community Resiliency and Personal Agency (YCT2) aimed to increase the capacities of youth to effect long-lasting social and ecological change in their communities and internationally.